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Tonee Mae Moll

Tonee Mae Moll holds a PhD in English from Morgan State University and an MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore. She is an assistant professor of English at a Maryland community college and teaches in MFA programs across the state. Her debut memoir, Out of Step, won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and the 2017 Non/Fiction Prize. Her poetry collection, You Cannot Save Here, won the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize, and her poetry has also received the Adele V. Holden Award and the Bill Knott Poetry Prize, with nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.

2022 Jean Peldman Poetry Prize

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Testimonials

  • Moll’s poems rocket the reader towards their ‘favorite apocalypse, ‘ and with a voice both energetic and compelling, reminds us how to hold on to what we love, even as the world is falling apart around us. You Cannot Save Here is an intimate and ambitious collection about being queer during the end of days, and how those days are not drained of playfulness, desire, and awe-all that might one day rescue us back to ourselves.

    Steven Leyva

  • What an oracle Moll has crafted, what revelation. At once a prayer for love & a new queer elegy for what has already departed, these poems are tense & blisteringly lucid. This is necessary & timely work, especially for those of us who were born in one plague & delivered through & into many others. You Cannot Save Here is an exciting addition to our queer canon.

    Meg Day, Author of Last Psalm at Sea Level

  • In Moll’s You Cannot Save Here, the reader reckons with a world of disaster-in-progress studded with small, luminous consolations. The thrust is elegiac, but the solace and solidarity, revelations and reveries, are far from foregone conclusions. These are attentions and tensions the poet gifts us for the journey we are lucky to share.

    Dora Malech

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